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Sunday, November 23, 2014

Conservative Voter outrage over "Stupid" comment doesn't include same claims by O'Reilly or Hannity!!!

I have often called "stand with Walker" backers low information voters. They don't care about his failures, because they care more about how they can win or lose based on gotchas and character assassinations. My conservative friend in Milwaukee is more concerned about Obama than anything Walker has done.

Gruber Referred To "The Stupidity Of The American
Voter" While Discussing The Affordable Care Act in 2013. “…call
it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was
really, really critical to getting the thing to pass."

The Republican outrage machine went into overdrive, exploiting the moment for a little self denial that allowed them to wipe away all their past, really stupid comments. Nice try.

Funny how stupid conservative voters never objected when their own "leaders" made the same claim. Here are some examples:

O'Reilly: "Low Information Voters" "Don't
Know Anything." On the October 24, 2013 edition of The O'Reilly
Factor, O'Reilly said, "The President was not elected on performance. He
was elected on personality and apathy. Low information voters don't -- who
don't know anything and really couldn't care less about their country broke
heavily for the President." [Fox News Channel,The O'Reilly Factor,
10/24/13, via Nexis]O'Reilly: "Low Information Voters" Are "Not
Interested In The Outside World," Unable "To Make Intelligent
Decisions In Life." On the August 15, 2013, edition of The
O'Reilly Factor, O'Reilly described "an American citizen" who
"is not interested in the outside world that person will not be able to
make intelligent decisions in life. Those are the so-called low information
voters." [Fox News Channel, The O'Reilly Factor, 8/15/13, via Nexis]Hannity: People With "Low Information Voter
Syndrome" "May Cancel Out Your Well-Informed Vote." On
October 29, 2013, Hannity complained about "low information voter
syndrome" among people who didn't know that the Affordable Care Act and
Obamacare were the same.HANNITY: Oh, boy, low information voter syndrome. Our very
own Ainsley Earhardt hit the streets of New York to see if people understand
that the Affordable Care Act and "Obamacare" are actually one and the
same. And as you just heard, the answers by people are downright scary. And by
the way, they may cancel out your well-informed vote -- as we continue tonight
here on "Hannity." [Fox News Channel, Hannity, 10/29/13, via
Nexis]Hannity: "Low Information Voters" Believe
"Lying Campaign[s]." On the April 24, 2013, edition of Hannity,
Hannity argued that "lying campaigns" that "demonize
conservatives" work because of "low information" voters. From Hannity:

TUCKER CARLSON: The idea that any cuts to government will
strand people with illnesses without a cure and if we pass this or that bill we
will cure Parkinson's or AIDS. It is an insult to people with Parkinson's and
AIDS because the truth is, it is not that simple. You don't flip a switch and these really complex diseases
are cured. This is ludicrous and you have to wonder who sat down and wrote this
and what the majority leader thought when he read it off the card. Does really
he believe this? Is there a single person that buys this?HANNITY: You know what, Tucker? I think this lying campaign
they use it because they think it works. They demonize conservatives all the
time.CARLSON: Anybody who takes what he says value and is moved
to vote on that basis should not be voting.HANNITY: But they are in big numbers.CARLSON: You are too dumb to vote if you buy that.HANNITY: Rush calls them low information voters. There are a
lot of them. [Fox News Channel, Hannity, 4/24/13, via Nexis]

2 comments:

Of course Republicans are going to insult the intelligence of the Democratic voters. How is that a surprise? I think it is funny that the Democrats themselves acknowledge that their supporters are stupid as well.

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